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when i did "configure" everything was good no errors.
"make" did well for the fist 15 minutes and then this came up:

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dylan/Desktop/apps/vlc-1.1.4/modules'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dylan/Desktop/apps/vlc-1.1.4/modules'
Making all in share
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dylan/Desktop/apps/vlc-1.1.4/share'
mkdir -p skins2
tar cvvzf skins2/default.vlt --exclude .svn -C ./skins2 default/
drwxr-sr-x dylan/dylan 0 2010-08-26 19:09 default/
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 55191 2010-04-12 20:22 default/theme.xml
drwxr-sr-x dylan/dylan 0 2010-08-26 19:09 default/subX/
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 2799 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/vol_slider.png
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 5677 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/sysbuttons.png
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 11202 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/pl.png
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 35321 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/eq.png
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 24700 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/font.otf
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 4865 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/vol_anim.png
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 181 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/playtreeglyphs.png
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 74465 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/main.png
-rw-r--r-- dylan/dylan 39468 2010-04-12 20:22 default/subX/about.png
LUAC lua/extensions/allocine-fr.luac
/usr/bin/luac: lua/extensions/allocine-fr.lua:212: unexpected symbol near `#'
make[2]: *** [lua/extensions/allocine-fr.luac] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dylan/Desktop/apps/vlc-1.1.4/share'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dylan/Desktop/apps/vlc-1.1.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2


any help is good, thanks!

luac --version?

Sounds like luac is not installed at all.

I solved this by installing the lua5.1 (5.1.4-5) package.